Then Sainsbury’s cottoned on and won Supermarket Product of the Year with it. LAKSA WAS THE sensational new dish on the block last year. This fiery oriental soup of noodles with prawns and chilli, smoothed with coconut cream, was popping up on restaurant menus all over the place. I’m half the person I could have been.”`Witness: Secret Fathers’ is shown on 12 July at 9pm on Channel 4.. I’ve been denied all the things other people take for granted; the building blocks of the personality. My children have known they’re the product of DI since they were two years old.

It may not make it right but at least they’ll know everything I know; they’ll know I haven’t tried to hide anything.”Even if they only have access to a few more facts than AID children of Christine’s generation, at least they won’t suffer the trauma of a family secret that is confessed too late Christine’s anger has not subsided “I am a product of science fiction I should not have been born,” she says “Everyone should have the right to know who they are. Angela Mays, a member of the support group DI (donor insemination) Network, says, “It isn’t the details of the act that can cause these problems It’s what surrounds it. They can find out two facts; whether they were conceived by IVF or AID and if they’re related to the person they’re marrying. Children born since 1991, when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority was set up, will have the right to access limited information when they are 16 or about to marry.

I think she was stepping into God’s shoes.” She is adamant that the rights of children of AID were overlooked by those responsible for their births. “Where did I benefit? Where did anyone give me any consideration? The baby has always been left out of the equation.”Sixty years later these issues remain unresolved; children born between 1935 and 1990 by AID have no legal right to access records held by donors. She was an ordinary factory girl and these women offered her a solution.” Christine’s resentment is focused instead on Jackson “I am angry with her She was obsessed with making babies. If anyone had found out, it would have been terrible for my mother.”She would watch me like a hawk, studying me, I now realise, for the traits of someone she didn’t know.

There was so much anguish and angst, and I was the focus of it.”In many ways, Margaret feels sorry for her mother “It must have seemed so simple. My father had died when I was six years old but I always knew he wasn’t really my father. I was convinced from about the age of 11 – I always felt I belonged somewhere else We lived in a small town; curtains twitched. “It was the missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle – I could finally make sense of everything.”She was quite calm about her mother’s revelation: “I felt vindicated.